DESTINATION TOKYO (1943) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Delmer Daves
Cary Grant, John Garfield, Dane Clark,
Robert Hutton, Alan Hale, John Ridgeley,
William Prince, Tom Tully, Faye Emersion,
Peter Whitney, Warren Douglas, John Forsythe
Exciting World War Two adventure starring Cary Grant as the captain of a submarine on a mission to recon Tokyo in advance of the Doolittle bombing raid. I first saw this on TV when I was a kid, and the part where the pharmacist's mate performs an appendectomy while the sub sits at the bottom of Tokyo Bay is still intense. Even in the context of a wartime propaganda flick, the anti-Japanese rhetoric is vicious.
